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US-9628612

Mobile phone call handling

PublishedApril 18, 2017
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Technical Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product include a processor detecting, ambient noise in the vicinity of the mobile telephone and accessing one or more stored sounds. The processor determines that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds and based on the determining, switches handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone to a predetermined state.

Patent Claims
13 claims

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1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: detecting, by a processor, ambient noise in a vicinity of the mobile telephone; accessing, by the processor, one or more stored sounds; determining, by the processor, that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds and further determining that the ambient noise corresponds to a specific type of conversation; switching, by the processor, based on the specific type of conversation, handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone from a previous state to a predetermined state; and switching, by the processor, the handling of the incoming calls back to the previous state, after a predetermined period of time, based on an expiration of the predetermined period of time.

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2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the determining comprises: determining, by the processor, for a predetermined period of time, that the ambient noise matches the stored sound.

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3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined state comprises at least one of: passing the incoming calls to voicemail, switching the mobile phone to silent, or rejecting the incoming calls.

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4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving, by the processor, an audio input and storing the audio input as the stored sound.

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5. A computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium readable by a processor and storing instructions for execution by the one or more processor for performing a method comprising: detecting, by the processor, ambient noise in a vicinity of the mobile telephone; accessing, by the processor, one or more stored sounds; determining, by the processor, that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds and further determining that the ambient noise corresponds to a specific type of conversation; switching, by the processor, based on the specific type of conversation, handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone from a previous state to a predetermined state; and switching, by the processor, the handling of the incoming calls back to the previous state, after a predetermined period of time, based on an expiration of the predetermined period of time.

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6. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the determining comprises: determining, by the processor, for a predetermined period of time, that the ambient noise matches the stored sound.

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7. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the predetermined state comprises at least one of: passing the incoming calls to voicemail, switching the mobile phone to silent, or rejecting the incoming calls.

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8. The computer program product of claim 5 , the method further comprising: receiving, by the processor, an audio input and storing the audio input as the stored sound.

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9. A system comprising: a memory; a processor in communication with the memory; and program instructions executable by the processor via the memory to perform a method, the method comprising: detecting, by the processor, ambient noise in a vicinity of the mobile telephone; accessing, by the processor, one or more stored sounds; determining, by the processor, that the ambient noise matches a stored sound of the one or more stored sounds and further determining that the ambient noise corresponds to a specific type of conversation; switching, by the processor, based on the specific type of conversation, handling of incoming calls to the mobile phone from a previous state to a predetermined state; and switching, by the processor, the handling of the incoming calls back to the previous state, after a predetermined period of time, based on an expiration of the predetermined period of time.

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10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the determining comprises: determining, by the processor, for a predetermined period of time, that the ambient noise matches the stored sound.

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11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the predetermined state comprises at least one of: passing the incoming calls to voicemail, switching the mobile phone to silent, or rejecting the incoming calls.

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12. The system of claim 9 , the method further comprising: receiving, by the processor, an audio input and storing the audio input as the stored sound.

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13. The system of claim 9 , further comprising: a microphone in communication with the processor, the microphone to detect ambient noise in the vicinity of the system and to provide the ambient noise to the processor.

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Filing Date

December 18, 2015

Publication Date

April 18, 2017

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